Hyderabad: The City Police Commissioner has appealed to the citizens to download Hawk Eye Mobile App and get benefited by the various ranges of features such as to cross check the IMEI numbers with the lost Mobiles IMEI numbers in the event of purchasing a second hand mobile phone and so on.

It may be mentioned here that the Hyderabad City police, as a part of Citizen Friendly and responsive Policing launched a Mobile App “Hawk Eye”, to empower members of the public to become Citizen Police and nearly 8,96,030 users are using the application. The Hawk Eye app facilitates the registered users to report the loss of their mobile phones. Based on the complaints, the IT core team at the Commissioner’s office tracks the lost mobile phones by using their IMEI numbers. As a part of this endeavor, the team was successful in recovering 24 mobile phones, worth of Rs 2 lakh.